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Hybrid works

Pakistan stands at a crossroads in its energy future. The country receives between 5 and 7 kWh/m² of solar energy daily, while the coastal winds of Sindh blow at consistent…

A hybrid wasteland

NO reform agenda is likely to emerge while the country runs under a so-called hybrid regime. Almost by its definition, such a set-up rests ultimately on a series of compromises made…

The wages of hybridity

ONE simple fact makes it all very clear. These people did not cut the deals they had cut to come to power in order to change things. Those who have…

India’s hybrid warfare

The term ‘hybrid warfare’ refers to a combination of traditional military means and the use of non-military resources deployed to achieve broader military and strategic objectives. That which cannot be…

Who can rock the hybrid boat?

A NUMBER of developments over the past week suggest that the establishment is keen to enforce/ maintain the status quo and the only impediment in its path may be an…

Hybrid pitfalls for PML-N

HYBRID set-ups have internal power struggle built into them. Like me, if you find some of the statements confusing — signalling differences of opinion within the top tiers of the…

Hybrid rule 3.0?

IT is a right royal mess that is hard to clean up. A hung parliament through a controversial election has pushed the country deeper into the mire. It has been…

Pakistan: a victim of hybrid warfare

The concept of hybrid warfare encompasses use of all means available to a state to subdue its adversary and achieve strategic goals without the ostensible use of available kinetic force.…